Angol leírás, sztori

This statue was made in 1934, but it was erected in 1937, near the statue of "The Reader" on the Roosevelt square, on the park side.
Eugen Kumičić (1850–1904) was a prominent Croatian writer and politician.

As politician, he was supporter of Ante Starčević's program, who (and his party) "demanded an independent Croatia independent of Austria and Hungary."

I read about him: Eugen Kumičić "wrote many novels and short stories, mostly dealing with working-class people in his native Istria. He also tried to introduce elements of naturalism to Croatian literature in his novels dealing with urban life and Croatian history, but his efforts were often hampered by national romantic tendencies. Nevertheless, as he published an influential Zolaesque literary essay about the poetics of writing (O romanu, (Eng. On Novel)) in 1883, he was seen by his contemporaries as the pioneer of naturalist writing in Croatian literature."